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ALLIANCE BANK'S RESTRUCTURING PLAN APPROVED AT CLAIMANTS' MEETING

15 December 2009

JSC Alliance Bank (the "Bank") is delighted to announce that its Restructuring Plan was approved by the requisite majority of Claimants at the Claimants' Meeting held today in Almaty. The Restructuring Plan covers over U.S.$ 4.5 billion of the Bank's financial indebtedness.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc and Wells Fargo & Co said they were paying back funds to the U.S. government, in transactions that will end taxpayers' capital support of the biggest U.S. banks much sooner than had been expected just weeks ago.

LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - British oil company BP (BP.L) said on Friday it had sold its stake in Lukarco, which has a minority stake in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, to its joint venture partner, Russia's Lukoil (LKOH.MM), for $1.6 billion in cash.

8th December 2009 Academy of RFCA and UBS AG jointly hold the second Conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan - Global Investment Outlook 2010: The shape of things to come.

The objective of the conference was to provide the audience with the unique opportunity to exchange proactively their views with high profile financial experts from UBS, government officials and the business community.

JSC BTA Bank (the "Bank") is pleased to announce that it signed a principal commercial terms sheet on 7 December 2009 with its Creditors' Steering Committee setting out the principal commercial terms of its proposed financial restructuring (the "Restructuring").

08.12.2009. JSC BTA Bank (the "Bank") is pleased to announce that it signed a principal commercial terms sheet on 7 December 2009 with its Creditors' Steering Committee setting out the principal commercial terms of its proposed financial restructuring (the "Restructuring").

DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai's government will not sell any assets to meet the obligations of state-owned Dubai World, but the conglomerate itself might sell some of its foreign assets, Dubai's finance chief told Al Jazeera television.

Companies from Kazakhstan plan to move part of their fundraising away from London, according to the country's central bank governor, because UK investors failed to stand by the central Asian state during the financial crisis.

ASTANA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - President Nursultan Nazarbayev told global oil and metals majors working in Kazakhstan on Friday he would force them to help diversify the economy as the government pledged $67 billion to modernise industries.

ALMATY, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said on Wednesday a debt standstill in Dubai, which has shaken global markets, represented a warning that more such trouble could lie ahead.

LONDON (Reuters) - Google offered publishers a way to attract paying subscribers without having to remove their content from Google News search results, after Rupert Murdoch and others accused it of profiting from their news.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp said it would repay $45 billion of taxpayer bailout funds, a move that could free the top U.S. lender from pay curbs as it looks to hire a new CEO but also makes it more vulnerable to further economic shocks.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Gulf markets dropped again on Tuesday, taking little comfort from Dubai World's plan to restructure about $26 billion of debt and despite reassurances on economic resilience from the rulers of Abu Dhabi and Dubai.